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WA'R PUZZLE. APPLICATION man MAR.' 14, 191s.

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GEORGE W. ARMSTRONG, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

WAR-PUZZLE.

Application filed March 14, 1918.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. ARM- STRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in'War-Puzzles, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to improvements in puzzles, and it has to do more particularly with that character of puzzles which are adapted to be tilted to various angles, and which employs a plurality of rolling objects adapted to traverse the puzzle surface under the impulse imparted by such tilting action.

Broadly speaking, it is a feature of my invention to provide opposing groups of rolling objects, the problem being to maintain these opposing groups in segregated or separated relation while they are being moved in opposite directions along a plane surface, and in the path of which objects there are interposed a plurality of passages or ways.

In the more speciiio embodiment of my invention, the same is in the form of a war puzzle with opposing starting inclosures des ignated as Germany and France, U. S. and German trenches leading in opposite directions, and past each other from the France to the Germany inclosure, and vice versa.

Interposed in the progress of the rolling soldier objects, are danger inclosures which I have designated as no mans land. These danger inclosures communicate with the starting inclosures contiguous with the communication of the trench entrances thereto.

Interposed between the trenches are in-A closures which I have designated as U. S. prison and German prison. These inclosures communicate with the trenches, between the entrance and eXit terminals thereof, and the' puzzle problem is to get the French or Allied rolling objects into Germany and escape entrance to the interposed German prison, and to get the German rolling objects into the U. S. prison and prevent the German rolling objects from getting into France.

My invention has other features and objects which will be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawing,

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

sei-iai No. 222,372.

and which will be more particularly pointed out in and by the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1, is a plan view illustrating one form of my invention.

Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section view thereof.

Like characters ofv reference designate similar parts throughout the different gures of the drawing.

As illustrated, 1 designates a base, formed of any suitable material, and which presents a continuously fiat and smooth surface 2, to the objects adapted to roll thereon. I have shown the basek 1 provided with an up-t standing surrounding wall having lateral portions 3, 4, and end portions 5 and 6. Partitions 7 and 8 divide o' the surface to form starting inclosures 9 and 10. I have provided a legend Germany, in starting inclosure 9, and a legend France, in starting inclosure 10. Broadly speaking, the starting inclosure 9, will house the Teutonic rolling object soldiers, and the inclosure 10, will house the Allied rolling object soldiers. A distinct group of rolling objects is provided for each inclosure, that in the inclosure 9 being designated at 11, and that in inclosure 10, being designated at 12.

\ A U. S. trench 13, has an entrance terminal 14, which communicates with inclosure 10. This U. S. trench is formed of upstanding guiding walls 15 and 16 which are shown in the drawing as being of generally circular formation, and slightly greater than a semi-circle. The exit terminal of the U. S. trench 13 is designated at 17. It will be seen that a portion of the wall 16, of the U. S. trench, completes the inclosure 10, as formed by the partition 8, the end wall 6 and the side wall 3.

A German trench is indicated at 18 and, the same is formed of upstanding guiding walls 19 and 20 which are of generally circular formation and which are specifically shown as being' greater than a semi-circle. The entrance 21, of the German trench, communicates with inclosure y9 and the eXit terminal of the German trench, designated at 22, intersects the U. S. trench. In other words, the semi-circular S. and German trenches are reversely Ydisposed with vvone trench in inter-projecting relation with respect to the other.

Closely adjacent to the French inclosure 10, is a danger inclosure which I have designated as no mans land and which is indicated at 23. It will be noted that'this danger inclosure 23 has contiguous communication at 24, with inclosure 10. Furthermore, this inclosure 23 communicates with terminal exit 22, of German trench 19. The wall'20, of the German trench, has aneXtension 25, which not only forms a guide but which coacts with wall 15, of the U. S. trench, to form the terminal exit 22, communicating with inclosure 23.

A no mans land inclosure 26, nearest the German inclosure 9, is formed by the U. S. trench wall 16 and the German trench wall 20. This inclosure 26 communicates with the German inclosure 9, at 27, contiguous with the entrance 21.

It will therefore be seen that nearest each starting inclosure, there is a danger inclosure, and each danger inclosure has a communication with the starting inclosure, which is contiguous with the entrance of the trench which communicates with the starting inclosure.

In order to form a guide, and in order to limit rolling movement of the objects, I provide arcuate guide walls 28 and 29, the wall 28 joining wall 16 and wall 4, and the wall 29, joining wall 19 and wall 3.

The space between the inter-projecting portions of the semi-circular trenches, is divided by a partition 30 into what I shall term a German prison 31, and a U. S. prison 32. Between they entrance 14 and the exit terminal 17 of U. S. trench 13, the latter communicates at 33, with the U. S. prison 32. Between the entrance 21 and the exit terminal 22 of the German trench, the latter communicates at 34', with German prison inclosure 31.

The base 1 is a tiltable base and rolling movement4 of the objects 11 and 12 is imparted by means of the degree of tilt in vari ous directions which the player will impart' to the base 1. Of course itis the object to get the Allied soldier objects 12, into the U. Sjtrench, through entrance 14, and out of exit 17.v through no mans land inclosure 26, into Germany, as indicated'at 9; If any one ofthe allied troops get into the U. S.

prison, through entrance33, or if they get into no mans land inclosure 23, and then'Y into the German trench lor German prison, the solution has not'been properly reached, and it is necessary to start over again.

Simultaneously, itis, or maybe, a part .ofv

the puzzle problem to get the Germanroll# ing objects 11, into the Germantrench and.

through nomans land inclosure 23, into France, as designatedi. at: 10.. Ploweve/ra.itv

of playing it, within the scope of the structure which I have shown and described.

It is believed that the novelty and attractive features of my improved puzzle, will be clearly understood from the foregoing description, and while I have herein shown anddescribed one specific form thereof, I do not. wish to be limited thereto eXcept for such limitations as the claims may afford.

1. In a tiltable war puzzle employing distinct groups of rolling soldier objects, a base presenting a flat plane surface, starting inclosures at opposite extremities of the surface designated Germany and France, a group of rolling German soldier objects for the Germany inclosure and-a group of allied rolling soldier objects for the France inclosure, a U. S. trench and a no mans land inclosure having contiguous entrance for the rolling objects as regards the France inclosure and a German trench and a no mans land inclosure having contiguous entrance from the Germany inclosure, each trench having a terminal exit opening toa remote no mans land inclosure, a U. S. prison inclosure communicating with the U. S. trench between itsentrance and terminahexit, a` German prison inclosure communicating with the German trench between its entrance and terminal exit, substantially as described.

2. In a tiltable war puzzle employing distinct groups'of rolling soldier objects, a base presenting a flat plane surface, starting inclosures at opposite extremities of the sur-` face designated France and Germany, a group of rolling soldier objects for the Germany inclosure, a group of rolling Allied soldier objects for the France inclosure, a U. S. trench greater than a semi-circle having its entrance opening to said France inclosure, a no manslandvinclosure'nearest the France inclosure and opening to the latter, a'German'trench greater than a semi-circle and having its entrance opening to said Germany inclosure andhaving its exit opening to said no mans land inclosure nearest said A France inclosure, a no mans landinclosure communicating `with said Germany inclosure contiguous with the entrance of the German trench, and said German and U. S. trenches being reversely disposed and in inter-projecting relation with respect to each other, and the terminal exitv of said U. S. trench communicating with the no mans land in# closure nearesty Germany and the saidl German trench having its terminal eXit in comsaid German prison communicating with munication with the no mans land nearest said German trench between its entrance and France, and a German and a U. S. prison interminal exit, substantially as described. l0 closure between the said trenches at their In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 places of inter-projection, said U. S. prison my own, I hereby aiiiX my signature.

communicating with said U. S. trench between its entrance and terminal exit, and GEORGE W. ARMSTRONG.

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